Monthly broadband charge instead of TV licence fee ‘not really a runner’, says Government sourceIssue of how to fund RTÉ emerging as potential fault line in CoalitionSun Jan 21 2024 - 14:34
Asylum seeker housing: Focus now on larger, State-owned centres, says CoveneyMinister points to more structured way to accommodate people seeking international protectionSun Jan 21 2024 - 14:12
On the frontline on immigration: the tensions between local and national politicsMinisters expect their local election candidates to put some water between themselves and the GovernmentSat Jan 20 2024 - 07:00
Northern Ireland’s damaging strike remains deeply politicalDáil’s return marked by ill-tempered exchanges during its first sessionThu Jan 18 2024 - 08:20
People Before Profit calls for Yes vote in care and family referendumsParty will support referendums despite saying Government’s wording is ‘well short’ of what is requiredWed Jan 17 2024 - 14:38
Use of ‘nasty’ language by some politicians when engaging with Roscrea protesters criticisedLabour TD says use of term ‘colonisation’ when talking about asylum seekers ‘appalling’Wed Jan 17 2024 - 13:58
Businesses with warehoused Covid-era tax liabilities to face relaxed deadlines, lower interest ratesMichael McGrath says expectation is that interest rates will fall but scale of these remain to be seenWed Jan 17 2024 - 10:32
As Dáil resumes, Government tries to make running repairs to its migrant accommodation strategy As long as Coalition intends to put asylum seekers and refugees in private sector accommodation, it may have to be in deal-making modeWed Jan 17 2024 - 07:53
Special package for 10 areas with highest number of refugees and asylum seekersGovernment says ‘scoping work’ under way to determine the size of the package that will be offeredWed Jan 17 2024 - 06:00
New taskforce to target productivity and savings in the health serviceSpending on acute hospitals has increased 80 per cent in the past seven years; spending on health services pay has risen by €3.2 billion in the same periodWed Jan 17 2024 - 06:00
Roscrea standoff: Government agrees ‘in principle’ to purchase disused hotel in town as ‘community hotel’Purchase part of attempts to defuse tensions over accommodating asylum seekers in local hotelTue Jan 16 2024 - 19:50
British Labour MP has not 'heard a peep' from Tánaiste since asking for views on Rwanda Bill's impact on Belfast AgreementLabour Party wrote to Tánaiste last month raising concerns over effects of Rwanda BillTue Jan 16 2024 - 15:08
Catherine Martin plans to designate 14 new sporting events ‘free to air’, including Six Nations rugbyMinister for Arts, Sports and Media also wants to make All Ireland football and hurling quarter and semi-finals free to airTue Jan 16 2024 - 14:33
Ten areas most ‘under pressure’ due to housing asylum seekers to get extra resources, says VaradkarTen districts with most international protection applicants and people from Ukraine will get more health, education and policing aid, Taoiseach saysTue Jan 16 2024 - 12:43
Cabinet to consider new terms of reference for tribunal into allegations made by Women of Honour group into Defence ForcesMinister for Further and Higher Education Simon Harris will also bring new policy on student accommodation to CabinetTue Jan 16 2024 - 06:00
Roscrea protests: Gardaí examine warning that hotel at centre of standoff over asylum seeker housing could be burnedSome 17 international protection applicants entered Racket Hall hotel on Monday amid scuffles between gardaí and protesters which saw one person arrestedMon Jan 15 2024 - 22:25
Labour questions whether UK’s Rwanda Bill breaches Belfast AgreementAodhán Ó Ríordáin has written to Tánaiste after concerns raised with him by British Labour PartyMon Jan 15 2024 - 18:53
Roscrea protests: Man arrested during ‘standoff’ between gardaí and protesters at hotel as 17 asylum seekers move inGarda Public Order Unit deployed as crowd of 200 gathered outside Racket Hall hotel in Co TipperaryMon Jan 15 2024 - 14:54
Squeeze on electricity supply to last into 2030s, report findsRising demand may force State to fall back on older fossil-burning power plants, Eirgrid report indicatesSat Jan 13 2024 - 06:00
Unions to seek significant restructuring of Government pay offer when talks resume next week Clear gap between 8.5% over 2½ years offered by the Government and the 12.5% sought by unionsFri Jan 12 2024 - 06:00
‘Real pity’ unions rejected public sector pay offer of 8.5% rise over two years, Donohoe saysForsa union chief Kevin Callinan says opening offer from Government side was ‘extremely disappointing’Thu Jan 11 2024 - 13:43
Helen McEntee denies Government ‘backed down’ on asylum seeker housing after protestsTense protests in Carlow against the accommodation of males as Department makes ‘abrupt’ change to take families insteadThu Jan 11 2024 - 08:58
Homeless groups warn against tightening access to emergency accommodationPotential move would lead to increase in rough sleeping and risk of ill health and death, say Simon Community and Focus IrelandThu Jan 11 2024 - 06:00
Garda yet to identify man found dead while sleeping rough in Dublin cityHomeless organisations told the Government they have “profound concerns” at a potential move to tighten access to emergency accommodationThu Jan 11 2024 - 06:00
Proportion of single men among asylum seekers fell sharply in final weeks of 2023Decline came as State ran out of capacity to offer beds to the cohortWed Jan 10 2024 - 06:00
Opposition to single men seeking asylum is increasingly a fact of political life in IrelandFar right actors may accelerate mistruths, but ascribing every protest to agitators is a fallacyWed Jan 10 2024 - 06:00
Ireland ‘is not full’, Eamon Ryan says, as Cabinet discusses accommodation for Ukrainian refugeesMinisters due to approve plans to limit accommodation and welfare payments for those fleeing Russian invasionTue Jan 09 2024 - 20:22
Elderly in rural areas face beds shortage as small nursing homes closeOne in five smaller private homes closed in two-year period, as private equity funded hubs take larger chunk of marketTue Jan 09 2024 - 00:01
Covid inquiry may go without judge as chair to avoid participants ‘lawyering up’Coalition sources concerned appointment of judge to chair pandemic inquiry could set overly legalistic toneMon Jan 08 2024 - 21:36
Civil servants warned Government against tax breaks for landlords, documents showOfficials said move would cause ‘unintended consequences’, records released to Sinn Féin showMon Jan 08 2024 - 20:55
Homeless figures hit new record with more than 4,000 children in emergency accommodationLatest figures show more than 13,500 people in emergency beds in NovemberFri Jan 05 2024 - 19:36
Defence officials recommended scrapping LÉ Eithne to avoid repeat of ‘LÉ Aisling situation’ involving warlordAdvice came amid fears of repeat of ‘LÉ Aisling situation’, when an ex-Naval Service ship ended up in the hands of a Libyan warlord, documents indicateFri Jan 05 2024 - 06:00
Sinn Féin pushes for removal of judge convicted of sexual assaultsGerard O’Brien was convicted last month of sexually assaulting six young men; he has yet to be sentencedThu Jan 04 2024 - 06:00
Jack Chambers: Fianna Fáil members ‘fear’ and ‘reject’ Sinn Féin, making coalition unlikelyThe ‘super junior’ minister will ‘consider’ leadership bid when Michéal Martin steps asideTue Jan 02 2024 - 06:00
Garda roads policing numbers fall in 2023 as road deaths reach nine-year highForty-seven fewer gardaí policing roads by end of 2023, a year that saw 184 people killed in collisionsTue Jan 02 2024 - 06:00
‘Utter nonsense’: Eamon Ryan criticises false stories about him that spread online – and in the DáilA Limerick TD claimed the Green Party leader sent a State car to the city with his bicycle in the bootTue Jan 02 2024 - 06:00
Fire at Dublin building intended as homeless accommodation confirmed as arsonDisused Shipwright pub in Ringsend was subject of false claims that property was earmarked for asylum-seeker accommodationMon Jan 01 2024 - 12:20
Disability funding used as ‘piggy bank’ when other areas run out of cash, Minister of State claimsParents being ‘led astray’ by idea there is a system that will work once a diagnosis is in place, whereas reality is ‘No, you go back on another list,’ says Anne RabbitteThu Dec 28 2023 - 06:15
Civil society groups give lukewarm reception to referendums as wording on carers falls shortConstitutional law expert Dr Laura Cahilane said proposed amendment had ‘completely fudged’ opportunityWed Dec 06 2023 - 06:00
‘Tight’ timeline for housing referendum within lifespan of Coalition, says TánaisteCommission split on question of constitutional vote, meaning majority and minority reports likely on key issueTue Dec 05 2023 - 18:06
Referendums on women in the home and the concept of the family to be held next MarchCabinet has approved plans for referendums to amend the ConstitutionTue Dec 05 2023 - 13:12
Government unable to say when all asylum seekers will be accommodated Department of Integration could not accommodate 32 International Protection applicants yesterdayTue Dec 05 2023 - 09:09
Ban on condoms and same-sex relationships ‘paralysed’ Ireland’s response to Aids, says VaradkarNew monument in Dublin’s Phoenix Park remembers those affected by the virusSun Dec 03 2023 - 18:50
Asylum seekers without housing set to get higher payments as accommodation shortage bites Roderic O’Gorman expects single male applicants for International Protection to be turned away in coming daysSun Dec 03 2023 - 17:56
No campaign to make Paschal Donohoe next head of IMF, Varadkar saysMinister for Public Expenditure’s ‘intention is to run again for the Dáil’, Taoiseach says amid reports of interest in International Monetary Fund jobSun Dec 03 2023 - 17:19
Sinn Féin to bring motion of no confidence in Minister for Justice Helen McEnteeMary Lou McDonald accuses Government of forcing party’s hand by ‘not listening’ amid safety issuesFri Dec 01 2023 - 11:34
Time will tell on wisdom of Sinn Féin’s move against Drew HarrisCultivating a relationship with the Garda Commissioner in opposition is part of that balance and the party has now set itself in direct opposition to the incumbentThu Nov 30 2023 - 19:00
Tasers, water cannons, bodycams, smaller shields and stronger pepper spray planned for gardaíHelen McEntee also announced that the Garda recruit class will graduate from Templemore a month earlyThu Nov 30 2023 - 09:47
Dublin riots: Not enough gardaí in city to contain rioters to one location, says Drew HarrisGarda Commissioner says policing operation was made difficult due to Dublin’s side streets and alleyways which rioters could run downWed Nov 29 2023 - 19:13
Dublin riots: Drew Harris tells committee Tasers to be given to Garda Public Order UnitGarda commissioner faces grilling at Oireachtas committee over Dublin riotsWed Nov 29 2023 - 16:12
